Broom cupboard 4 - soon be time to think about heating this place

[TheHoneyBadger]

Will post this on the end of the other thread too but I have just found this:

If you are identified as a contact and asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, including by the NHS COVID-19 app you may be entitled to a payment of £500 from your local authority under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has been told to self-isolate you may also be entitled to this payment.

^Presumably that is all of the 'thought' that has gone into the situation I've been talking about. Still doesn't tell us if we would be seen as taking unauthorised leave or able to work from home or anything - need union specific advice on that.

I had a letter from school in 2000 for petrol, though luckily didn’t end up needing to use it due to lift sharing with colleagues

Just here to wave at Lola. If you can't find your mug it'll be under piles of papers and crap on the desk of the filthiest (usually male) member of your department with mould growing on it.

@JanglyBeads

Apparently there was an Essential Workers list in the 2000 fuel crisis. Wonder who was on it?

I worked in a day centre for adults with learning disabilities in 2000 and we had a letter so we could get petrol for our minibus so we could pick them up in the mornings, drop them home and take them to activities.

My lovely husband came and collected my car and took it and filled it so I'm all ok now. (In his extended lunch hour!)

It's been a while and I'm not caught up. I just need to vent.

My new school sends the vaguest emails about pupils. They'll put their name and tutor group and expect you to either have memory superpowers (I really don't) or trawl through to figure out what class they are in and when you teach them.

So 'Dave Smith in 11mz is in isolation tomorrow, please have work ready for the start of the day'

1. that was sent at 17:19, so I have to go in early to sort that out if it concerns me.

2. I teach up to 5 classes per yeargroup, I have no idea which one Dave is in without either checking sims (can't do that at home) or searching through my class lists to find him.

At my old school the email would only be sent to people who teach Dave tomorrow, and would say 'Dave Smith is in isolation tomorrow, his timetable is... please have work ready for the start of the lesson'.

I'm really struggling with the vagueness and all the extra checking is really slowing me down. Everyone seems to be chasing their tails and I'm not surprised, communication generally is a bit shit, all the detentions were cancelled for a staff meeting and rearranged for other days last week but no-one told staff or the pupils, unless they had checked class charts in the last hour no-one had a clue.

Is this normal? I thought my last school was disorganised but this is worse and really adding to my stress!

I've found my mug!

Waves at everyone and pulls up a seat. Life is starting to feel a bit calmer now, but for a period I wasn't sure if a career break was on the horizon.

We have a system of "teachers of Bob" emails so that emails only go to the people affected. It's brilliant.

Not sure that helps you though

We have the same, Frl.

I don't kind the form and name only a little bit later in the year, but some staff (pastoral) at our place don't even put the form name, just "FAO teachers of Jane Doe, year 7." Most people don't know every child in year 7 yet 🙄

Don't mind...

Do you feel you can raise it with someone @Frlrlrubert? The timing is ridiculous for a start!

I don't think I'd mind later in the year, or if I had been there longer so it was only new kids I didn't know.

We have 'teachers of Bob' so I definitely teach them, just not tomorrow.

Also, kids just writing 'Claire' on the back of their homework and then waving it at me (late) in the corridor.

Ditto staff replying with 'see Jane in History about this' I don't know who Jane is ffs.

I'm sure I'll be on it by half term, just drowning a bit right now.

@JanglyBeads

Do you feel you can raise it with someone *@Frlrlrubert*? The timing is ridiculous for a start!

I'll raise it with my line manager for sure. Also need to find out who the union reps are, cos I'm pretty sure the directed time calendar is missing open evenings and certain meetings.

I'm still saying, "Who is Jane?" and I'm in my 4th year Frlfrl. This assumption you know who people are is maddening sometimes.

We get it only sent to teachers of so and so but they don't even include year group or form. Luckily on GO you can pop the name in and search and see which one of that name you recognise in the pics and th.en click on their timetable to work out what group they're in that you teach.

It would be so helpful if they'd at least narrow it down to a year group and a form and amazing if, as someone else mentioned up thread, they snipped and pasted a copy of their timetable in

That sound crap frlfrl at least you get the Year group. We keep getting whole staff emails with just the pupils name.
Adding the year group would be a huge help

We get stuff with just two initials and a form.

GDPR innit...

Frlrlrubert
Inefficient communication is a drain, isn't it?

My school usually only emails the staff affected who will be teaching Bob when he has time in isolation.

One school I worked at some staff would use initials only whilst emailing whole staff. How does anyone know who 'DS Y9' is 3 weeks into term when the email also has no context to help?

Imagine if I had to send those emails out 😉

(Sorry, that reference will only be meaningful to Skypites!)

Skypites sounds like some doomed tribe from the Old Testament.

Techie people on twitter have tracked down the bloke who sent that fake NHS vaccines consent letter to schools and it's a chemtrails conspiracy theorist.

twitter.com/karamballes/status/1443325439762632716?s=21

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10043273/GCSE-level-tests-return-theyll-tougher-officials-say.html

‘Might know the topics for the exams in February’ 🙄

I was only saying to y11 and 13 on Monday that it would be well after Christmas before we'd know anything useful.

It's all ridiculous. Some subjects get so much better treatment than others.

Anyone else also got a DC in these age groups?

This time last year I knew I could drop one Literature test will Yr 11. There’s no benefit in finding out in Feb as all the course would have been completed by then as it’s just revision.

What’s worse for me is that I have bottom set this year and narcissistic second had bottom set last year. She didn’t give anything lower than a 5 to her set. My bottom set will be studying all the texts and have proper exams and my results will be compared to hers. Only I can’t write ‘the system and a liar’ on my appraisal, just shit teacher’.

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